Chapter 5
Calm
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01.Spirituality for People who Hate Spirituality
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02.How to Spill A Drink Down One’s Front - and Survive
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03.How To Stop Worrying Whether or Not They Like You
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04.On Soothing
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05.What Is Wrong with Modern Times - and How to Regain Wisdom
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06.The Disaster of Anthropocentrism - and the Promise of the Transcendent
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07.On Needing to Find Something to Worry About
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08.How We Are Easily, Too Easily, 'Triggered'
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09.Hypervigilance
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10.The True Cause of Dread and Anxiety
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11.If The Worst Came to the Worst...
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12.Preparing for Disaster
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13.The Lottery of Life
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14.In Praise of the Quiet Life
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15.The Pursuit of Calm
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16.Insomnia and Philosophy
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17.The Catastrophe You Fear Will Happen has Already Happened
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18.There is Always a Plan B
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19.The Consolations of History
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20.The Lessons of Nature
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21.What Others Think of You - and The Fall of Icarus
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22.On the Sublime
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23.Why ‘Earthrise’ Matters
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24.The Wisdom of Animals
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25.Perspectives on Insomnia
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26.On the Wisdom of Space
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27.On the Wisdom of Cows
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28.On Calming Places
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29.The Consolations of a Bath
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30.The Importance of Staring out the Window
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31.Clouds, Trees, Streams